{"id":95785524,"date":"2010-09-27T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-to-purchase-airtran-airways-for-1-4-billion\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:08:00","slug":"southwest-airlines-to-purchase-airtran-airways-for-1-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-to-purchase-airtran-airways-for-1-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines to Purchase AirTran Airways for $1.4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Southwest to buy AirTran<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSouthwest Airlines announced Monday that it would be acquiring low-cost competitor AirTran Airways for an estimated $1.4 billion.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith the possible purchase of AirTran, Southwest would gain a bigger presence in Atlanta&#39;s busy airport, as well as New York&#39;s LaGuardia and Boston&#39;s Logan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe announcement comes just as United and Continental Airlines were granted approval to merge, making the combined carriers the largest airline in the world.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe deal should be finalized by early to mid-2011.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/southwest-airlines-to-buy-airtran-for-14-billion-2010-09-27-812480\" target=\"_blank\"> Market Watch <\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Southwest to buy AirTran &nbsp; Southwest Airlines announced Monday that it would be acquiring low-cost competitor AirTran Airways for an estimated $1.4 billion. &nbsp; With the possible purchase of AirTran, Southwest would gain a bigger presence in Atlanta&#39;s busy airport, as well as New York&#39;s LaGuardia and Boston&#39;s Logan. &nbsp; The announcement comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}